Kushinagar, where the Buddha passed into Parinirvāṇa

Kushinagar is one of the four holy places of Buddhists, and is town of Uttar Pradesh State in Indian country.  In the epic poem of India (Ramayana), Kushwati was capital of Kosala kingdom which was built by king Kush. In the Buddhist tradition, there was a lot of Kush grass in Kushawati, and which also named of the previous king in the ancient Indian country. The Buddha had chosen Kushinagar to pass away with three reasons: Kushinagar was the proper venue for teaching the Mahāsudassana Sūtra; the Buddha needed to give teaching for the last disciple named “Subhadda”; there was a wise Brahmin called Doha who could meditate among all disciples and Kings, and one would inevitably argue on how to share the Buddha’s relics.

Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha passed into Parinirvāṇa at the age 80s. The Buddha gave teaching at the Vulture’s peak of Rajgir, Vaishali, and then he went to Cunda or Kunda who gave the last meal as an offering to the Awakened One. The Buddha fallen into the violently ill after eating that meal, he thus instructed his attendant Ānanda to convince Cunda that, “the meal eaten at his place had nothing to do with his passing and that his meal would be a source of the greatest merit as it provided the last meal for a Buddha.” It quotes in the Mahaparinibbāna Sutta of Dīgha Nikāya 16 with the Verse 56.

Kushinagar was a city in the 12^th century AD, and was thereafter lost into oblivion. In the 19^th century AD, the Archeological excavations carried out by Alexander Cunningham through the first Archaeological Survey of India. Nowadays, Kushinagar now is the solemn place in the Spiritual Indian country in the general, and for Buddhists in over the world.